"There is not, in effect, a more powerful means of sanctification in the Church than the Holy Eucharist, which is Itself the Source of every grace." Source: St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Divine Eucharist

The vow of obedience consummates the sacrifice of the religious. It is the essential vow of religion. It alone might suffice, for it eminently comprises the others. It perfects the holocaust begun by poverty in the goods of fortune, and continued by chastity in those of the body, by offering to God the liberty, the [...]

Ye, therefore, as well as all your fellow-travellers, are God- bearers, temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, in whom also I exult that I have been thought worthy, by means of this Epistle, to converse and rejoice with you, because with respect to your Christian life [...]

But, it was retorted, if human love craves oneness, shall not divine love? If husband and wife seek to be one in the flesh, shall not the Christian and Christ crave for that oneness with one another? The memory of the Christ who lived twenty centuries ago, the recalling of His mercy and miracles through [...]

But let us all by God's grace run the race of chastity, young men and maidens, old men and children; not going after wantonness, but praising the name of Christ. Let us not be ignorant of the glory of chastity: for its crown is angelic, and its excellence above man. Source: St. Cyril of [...]

Your chief desire ought to be to slay your selfish will so that it neither seeks nor wants anything but to follow [God’s] gentle Truth, Christ crucified, by seeking the honor and glory of [His] name and the salvation of souls. The Dialogue was dictated by St. Catherine during an ecstasy that she experienced. [...]

Our holy faith teaches us, and we are bound to believe, that in the consecrated Host, Jesus Christ is really present under the species of bread. But we must also under stand that He is thus present on our altars as on a throne of love and mercy, to dispense graces, and there to show [...]